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All Japan Pro-Wrestling announced the 12 competitors that will be involved in this years Champion Carnival tournament. The 2013 Champion Carnival tournament is set to begin on April 18th, at Korakuen Hall, and will end with the Finals on April 29th, also at Korakuen Hall. There will be semi-finals held for this tournament, with the 2 highest ranked wrestlers per block, via points, will move on to the semi’s.

The tournament will be held under PWF rules, which are similar to the point system used in TNA’s Bound for Glory Series. Regular block matches will be conducted under a 30 min. time limit with the semi-finals and final match held under no time limit. 2 points will be awarded to the winner of the match, 1 point will be awarded for a draw, and 0 points will be given for a loss, double ring out, or no contest.

New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced that Damian el Terrible & Tama Tonga will be making their second defense of the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Tag Team Titles. They’ll be facing fellow CMLL luchadors, La Mascara & Valiente, at the NJPW Sumo Hall show, on April 7th .

After months of talking on the MLW Radio Podcast and a recent announcement by AAA to work with FactoryMade Ventures to expand AAA’s America prescience it finally looks like AAA will tour America. While dates have not announced, at Rey de Reyes it was announced AAA would have a brand split coming.

AAA Fusion will be run Joaquin Roldin and Dorian will run AAA Evolucion. Evolucion is RUMORED to be the American brand. On the March 14 MLW Radio Podcast, Konnan talks about the eventual plans to have a new AAA show on El Rey, a bi-lingual hispanic television station to come to American airwaves in 2014. This will likely be the home of Evolucion though details are sketchy at the moment.

The only name that has been truly passed around through the pipeline is El Mesias (mainly cause Konnan mentioned that he is a Puerto Rican citizen and will not need a passport the same way say Cibernetico would as well as him being bi-lingual.) Others that could be assumed are Teddy Hart, Jack Evans and Octagon Jr. (if he does not goto WWE anytime soon) without looking at Mexican talents who have passports and are in good standing.

It will be interesting to see how AAA Evolucion shapes up. I do not see AAA Fusion being much different than how it is currently except for a few wrestlers not being used as they are in America now. As news comes out, we will keep up with it.

AAA held their annual Rey de Reyes on March 17 out of Plaza de Toros in Monterrey, Mexico.

In the finals of the AAA Fusion title tournament Fenix defeated AAA Cruiserweight champion Juventud Guerrera, Daga and the returning Crazy Boy to become the first AAA Fusion champion.

Sexi Star vacated the Reina de Reinas title last month leading to four qualifying matches leading to a fatal four-way that was held at Rey de Reyes. Fabi Apache beat Mari Apache, Taya Walkyrie and LuFisto to win the fatal four-way and start her second Reina de Reinas title reign.

Lucha Libre USA is a promotion that runs lucha libre shows in America. In 2009 they worked together with AAA to bring a two show tour to California and Las Vegas however the two promotions would not work together. In summer 2010, Lucha Libre USA debuted the somewhat successful Masked Warriors program on MTV2 airing 7 shows in 2010 as a part of season 2 before airing 4 more in 2011. If you want to watch these they are available on Hulu (you do not even need to have a plus account to access these episodes.)

After scrapping the tv show for 2012, Lucha Libre USA ran a tour in 2012. After weeks of rumors sparked by sponsor Dr. Pepper 10, Lucha Libre USA will continue their second year of running tours. The touring group for the show includes Blue Demon Jr., RJ Brewer (John Walters to you early Ring of Honor fans), Lizmark Jr., Jon Rekon (Strong Man), Stevie Richards, Psicosis (the CMLL one), Mr. Aguila, El Hijo Del Fantasma, Super Crazy, Super Nova, Pequeno Halloween, Mascara Purpura, Solar, Melina, Hurricane Helms and more include RCW wrestlers for some shows.

The dates of the show have been announced with only the Phoenix show naming a venue, the Grand Canyon University Arena.

Interesting to note that Marco Corelone and Rocky Romero who have been fixtures of Lucha Libre USA are not a part of the tour. Marco wrestles for CMLL but so does Psicosis, Aguila and Fantasma. Rocky Romero has since become a regular for New Japan Pro Wrestling so perhaps that is why he is not going to wrestle for Lucha Libre USA this time around.

Due to professional wrestling being such a high risk sport it’s very difficult to find a company to give an insurance professional wrestlers. Asistencia Asesoría y Administración joins the network of free medical services for the Federal District in supporting both the fighter and their families.

This Friday at AAA offices several wrestlers gathered for such registration accompanied by their relatives. The meeting was also attended by President of the Commission of the City Wrestling, The Phantom. Some of the wrestlers who were there are La Parka, Faby Apache, Drago, Dynasty, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown, The Apache, Psicosis, Atomic Boy, Silver King, Jennifer Blake, Taya, “tufts” Salazar, Lolita, Cynthia Moreno , Phoenix, among others.

“It’s hard to find someone to give you insurance for the high impact activity we do. That is why we appreciate that insurance will give us, I was the first to arrive and therefore was the first registered. I’m glad because if it is sometimes difficult to find someone treats us, but we thank AAA and Wrestling Commission City to give ease to affiliate directly at the desk.” -Faby Apache, after being the first fighter affiliate Triple A.